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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
"The popcorn popper:" Lionel and Leona persuade Click the Mouse to take a magic popcorn popper out of a book. "Hug, hug, hug!:" Leona helps a sculptor who falls in love with his statue. "Piggyback, piggyback:" Leona decides to ride piggyback on her dad's back forever and ever.
262) Read, rhyme, and romp: early literacy skills and activities for librarians, teachers, and parents
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Read, Rhyme, and Romp: Early Literacy Skills and Activities for Librarians, Teachers, and Parents explores the six basic pre-literacy skills that experts agree are necessary for a young child to be ready to learn to read. Special sections within each chapter are dedicated to the specific needs of preschool teachers, parents, and librarians, making the content relevant to different settings. Recommended book lists, personal anecdotes, and literacy-rich...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Provides a comprehensive readers advisory for children's and young adult literatures to help readers independently choose titles of interest published in the last year. Features numerous entries listing everything young readers, librarians and teachers need to know to make reading selections.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Reading aloud to and with young children is an experience that serves a variety of purposes. In Book Smart: How to Support Successful, Motivated Readers, the experience of reading together is used as a vehicle for discussing the varied yet interconnected language and literacy skills that jumpstart the career of a successful reader. Authored by two passionate psychologists and educators, this book is a how-to guide rich with stories, lessons, activities,...
Series
Reading rainbow volume 129
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This prayer of the Iroquois Indians celebrates the precious and rare gift of the natural world and the resources of the Earth. Other segments include: Visit a cranberry farm: LeVar visits a Maine cranberry farm and shows how cranberries are grown, and harvested ; Clay from the earth: a visit to Pueblo, AZ provides an introduction to the process and traditions of creating beautiful Pueblo pottery ; Planting a tree: kids in New York City tell about...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Centered around the theme of the importance of stories, this guide is a resource for discovering more recent global books that fit many reading tastes and educational needs for readers aged 0-18 years. Essays by storyteller Anne Pellowski, author Beverley Naidoo, and academic Marianne Martens offer a variety of perspectives on international youth literature. This volume includes English-language imports as well as translations of children's and young...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First Random House edition.
Language
English
Description
This bilingual book presents parents sharing books with their children; includes questions to prompt interaction with the story.
Este libro bilingüe presenta a los padres compartir libros con sus hijos; incluye preguntas para provocar la interacción con la historia.
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"This vibrant and timely collection of brand new essays explores the complete Harry Potter series. The volume presents a variety of critical essays by a range of scholars, providing students with much needed guidance on how to approach these immensely popular texts and films, and how to tackle the complex concepts found within Rowling's world"--
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
An anthology of letters from young readers to favorite authors about how their books made a significant impact on them describes the feelings of connection, inspiration, and clarity that can be found through reading. The letters are selected from the Letters About Literature program of the Library of Congress Center for the Book.
274) Germs make me sick
Series
Reading rainbow volume 34
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
The book explains what germs are, how bacteria and viruses affect the human body, and how the body fights against them. Other segments include: Finding out about germs: LeVar uses a microscope to discover what germs really look like ; How your body fights germs: animation featuring the body's defense team works in action ; How bacteria can help: a visit to an organic farm illustrates how micro-organisms are important to growing food.
278) Knight of the cape
Author
Series
Definitely Dominguita volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"All Dominguita wants to do is read. Especially the books in Spanish that Abuela gave to her just before she moved away. They were classics that Abuela and Dominguita read together, classics her abuela brought with her all the way from Cuba when she was a young girl. It helps Dominguita feel like Abuela's still there with her. One of her favorites, Don Quixote, tells of a brave knight errant who tries to do good deeds. Dominguita decides that she,...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Featuring more than a dozen short comic stories, this volume addresses specific learning concepts in Social Studies, Math, Language Arts, and Science while offering an immersive textual and visual experience that kids will enjoy even as it helps them learn.
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